NEW DELHI: Indian batting nice Sunil Gavaskar, who amassed over 13,000 runs throughout his 16-year-long worldwide profession mentioned he was all the time seeking to rating 100 at any time when he got here out to bat and averted trying on the scoreboard.
The maestro mentioned that he all the time geared toward bat classes in Test matches, starting from the beginning of play until stumps.
“The prize that I put on my wicket was invariably a 100. I always wanted a century; that’s the minimum I wanted to get… Obviously that was impossible, even Sir Don Bradman couldn’t do it in every inning. So, my whole idea was to bat sessions; first session to lunch, then to tea and then to the close of play,” Gavaskar mentioned at an occasion organised by ABP Group.
“I didn’t look at the scoreboard when I was batting, because every batsman has his own way of setting targets. Small targets are what the coaches tell you first, getting to 10, 20 and 30, which is a good way,” the previous India captain mentioned.
“The way I was looking at is that if my target was to get to 30, if I got to anywhere around 24-25, I would be very anxious then to try and get to 30. I would then play at a ball outside off stump or something, nick it and be out for say 26, trying to hit the boundary that would have got me to 30,” he mentioned.
Sharing an attention-grabbing anecdote, Gavaskar mentioned he didn’t even realise when he had equalled Sir Don Bradman’s twenty ninth Test century.
“I didn’t have any idea till (Dilip) Vengsarkar came and told me about the achievement,” the batting wizard mentioned.
Gavaskar equalled Bradman’s document of 29 Test centuries in 1983 in opposition to West Indies in New Delhi.
The maestro mentioned that he all the time geared toward bat classes in Test matches, starting from the beginning of play until stumps.
“The prize that I put on my wicket was invariably a 100. I always wanted a century; that’s the minimum I wanted to get… Obviously that was impossible, even Sir Don Bradman couldn’t do it in every inning. So, my whole idea was to bat sessions; first session to lunch, then to tea and then to the close of play,” Gavaskar mentioned at an occasion organised by ABP Group.
“I didn’t look at the scoreboard when I was batting, because every batsman has his own way of setting targets. Small targets are what the coaches tell you first, getting to 10, 20 and 30, which is a good way,” the previous India captain mentioned.
“The way I was looking at is that if my target was to get to 30, if I got to anywhere around 24-25, I would be very anxious then to try and get to 30. I would then play at a ball outside off stump or something, nick it and be out for say 26, trying to hit the boundary that would have got me to 30,” he mentioned.
Sharing an attention-grabbing anecdote, Gavaskar mentioned he didn’t even realise when he had equalled Sir Don Bradman’s twenty ninth Test century.
“I didn’t have any idea till (Dilip) Vengsarkar came and told me about the achievement,” the batting wizard mentioned.
Gavaskar equalled Bradman’s document of 29 Test centuries in 1983 in opposition to West Indies in New Delhi.